Israeli President May Face Investigation Of Payoffs

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January 14, 2000

JERUSALEM - Israel's attorney general said Thursday he was advising the police to investigate whether President Ezer Weizman illegally accepted large sums of money from a friend. Weizman has been accused of acting improperly by accepting $450,000 from a French businessman friend while Weizman was serving as a lawmaker and minister from 1988 until he became president in 1993. .